there should be a reasonable period of time when we simply mourn. television is our national cathedral. it's where we all go when there is an american tragedy. we go there to grieve together and to witness what's going on together. there should be no politics. as you said, it took minutes for some on the left and the media to start in with their gun agenda. but conservative media also used the tragedy and the media to further their agenda. >> bill: how did they do that? >> i'll give two examples. there was talk about how we took god out of the classroom, out of the school room, so we shouldn't be surprised when there is carnage in the schools. >> bill: i got letters saying that. >> there was talk about how we have a million abortions a year, cheapens life, and that somehow this is related to what happened. indirectly, but somehow related. >> bill: let me ask you something -- >> let me just say, this bill. as if an insane gunman, an insane mentally unstable gunman cares about god and the classroom or abortion. we know he doesn't. >> bill: okay. i don